People were divided based on class, status, religion and language. ... Equality of opportunity is an ideology that wishes to eliminate discrimination that is based on age, gender, color, race, national origin, religion. ... She is a dark-skinned Virgin, she is the Mexican version of the Virgin Mary; she is national identity having her as an icon has shown the influence of Roman Catholicism in this particular national culture. ... It is similar to the original language of the Aztecs, is Nahuatl it still exists and there are a lot of similarities with the Spanish language. Sometimes the sound...

• Word Count: 2288
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Prince Henry the Navigator Prince Henry the Navigator seldom left Portugal, but he helped make it possible for the first Europeans to explore Africa. In Henry's time, the ocean was very dangerous and Africa was a mysterious place that seemed to contain endless miles of sand. Today we know t...

• Word Count: 2251
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

The Europeans or (whites) who controlled the slave trade realized that he had to strip the Africans or (black people) of all culture such as original names, languages, and religion. ... In order to accomplish that, they outlawed anything and everything belonging to or identified with African culture and forced them to accept their names, languages, religions, and along with that, the terms "nergo," "nigger," and "nigga." ... Individuals, mainly African-Americans must consciously stop using the word "nigga" and eliminate it from their everyday language. No matter how you think of yourself, whe...

• Word Count: 1650
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The thing that is especially interesting about the use of proverbs in African American writings is its suggestion of a movement from the written language back to the oral. ... There many proverbs were, in some way, their national poetry. ... When Africans were taken from their homeland and brought to America as slaves, they also brought with them their individual cultures, languages and customs. ... Most slave owners forbade their slaves from speaking their own language, and forced them to speak English. ... "Proverbs are expressed not only in words but also in the language of the drums and th...

• Word Count: 2075
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Though they emigrated for different reasons (pursuit of wealth or religious freedom) and were of different specific faiths, these three groups shared enough in common with the English colonists (Protestantism, the English language, similar geographic origins) to effectively fuse with the English, forming a new, pluralistic culture found nowhere else in the world. The only two European immigrant groups that remained isolated were the Germans and the Jews "the Germans being feared because their massive numbers and different language posed a threat to the dominance of the nascent pseudo-Engl...

• Word Count: 2312
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Graduate

It was the publishing of "Lyrics of Lowly Life" that had made Dunbar a national literary figure. ... America and Dunbar gained national praise for his dialect verses in some of his poetry. He was the first black American poet to gain this national praise, although white and black writers before him have used it also (Laryea 108). ... Just as was stated above he tries to recreate the Negro by words and language in his poem "Sympathy" such as the "caged bird". ...

• Word Count: 1623
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This caused no trouble for David as he had been isolated from European communication for about six months, and had learned everything about the botswanien way of living, their language and laws. ... David Livingstone was burried in Westminster Abbey, together with other British national heroes. ...

• Word Count: 1340
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The Europeans who owned slaves also thought that the slaves were not smart enough because they could not speak English and they did not have a written language. This was proven not to be true either because the second generation of slaves learned the English language with no trouble at all. ...

• Word Count: 2041
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School